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Koine Greek wordlink #37299

SR GNT Luke 1:3 κράτιστε (kratiste) ‘consecutively to you to write most_excellent Theofilos’ Strongs=29030 Lemma=kratistos
Word role=adjective case=vocative gender=masculine number=singular
Year=-5

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Other uses (1) of identical word form κράτιστε (A-VMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘κράτιστε’ (A-VMS) is always and only glossed as ‘most_excellent’.

Acts 24:3 ‘and everywhere we are welcoming it most_excellent Faʸlix with all’ SR GNT Acts 24:3 word 6

OET-LV: 3 both everything and everywhere, most _excellent Faʸlix we _are _welcoming it, with all thanksgiving. (ACT_24:3)

OET-RV: 3 most excellent Felix, and we gratefully welcome everything you’ve done and everywhere you’ve done it. (ACT 24:3)

Greek words (2) other than κράτιστε (A-VMS) with a gloss related to ‘most_excellent’

ACTs 23:26 κρατίστῳ (kratistōi) A-DMS ‘Klaudios Lusias to the most_excellent governor Faʸlix to_be greeting’ SR GNT Acts 23:26 word 5

OET-LV: 26 Klaudios Lusias, to _be _greeting to _the most _excellent governor Faʸlix. (ACT_23:26)

OET-RV: 26 “Greetings to the most excellent Governor Felix from Claudius Lysias. (ACT 23:26)

ACTs 26:25 Κράτιστε (Kratiste) A-VMS ‘not I am raving_mad is saying most_excellent Faʸstos but of truth’ SR GNT Acts 26:25 word 7

OET-LV: 25 But the Paulos: Is _saying I _am_ not _raving _mad: most _excellent Faʸstos, but I _am _speaking _out messages of _truth and sobriety. (ACT_26:25)

OET-RV: 25 But Paul said, “I haven’t gone mad, most excellent Festus, but I’m speaking the truth in all seriousness. (ACT 26:25)

Key: A=adjective DMS=dative,masculine,singular VMS=vocative,masculine,singular